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The forecast was saying 25km/h off-shore winds at sunrise so i was undecided. Should I set the alarm and join the crowds for the daily pilgrimage up to Cape Byron, the eastern most and first point of mainland Australia to see sunrise each day or should I say comfy in bed?
My usual position when faced with the indecision of sleeping or shooting is to yield to the FOMO gods and shoot so why should this be any different? Besides, I have no plans on getting back to Byron Bay soon, and.. I did really want that aerial.
My plan was for a big vista, high and far with the lighthouse dotted onto the coastline but the winds were abating some of my confidence to fly too far.
In the end I edged on the side of caution and kept Inspire within about 500m of me and I have therefore come home with a slightly more mellow aerial than I had hoped for but, it’s not like I had to abandon a sleep in or anything…
Cape Byron is the most easterly point of mainland Australia and as such is the place first touched by the sun each day. There is a bit of a pilgrimage from Byron Bay to this point each morning to welcome the sun, generally from just in front of the lighthouse.
Cape Byron is the most easterly point on mainland Australia so sunrise here is the country's first sun each day. It is a bit of a pilgrimage here with quite a few travellers making the trek up the hill each morning to welcome the sun. On the way back down again, there were dolphins playing in the surf among the actual surfers. Not a bad way to start the day.
Early morning in Byron Bay. The night before had been a pretty big night at a wedding, getting home in the early hours. Even despite the exhaustion, my insomnia still kicked in at 5 am so it was out and about exploring the area with camera. I had been up to the lighthouse, which you can just see in this photo, and was wandering back along the beach watching people and dolphins playing in the surf. A great way to both start the day and cure a hangover.
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Tallow Beach, seen from Cape Byron Lighthouse, NSW, Australia.
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Cape Byron Light is an active lighthouse located at Cape Byron, New South Wales, Australia. The cape is the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia, located about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of the town of Byron Bay. It is Australia's most powerful lighthouse, with a light intensity of 2,200,000 cd. Built 1902.
Got a few minutes to get photos at the Cape Byron Lighthouse before the rain hit again.
I picked the wrong time to come to Byron Bay for a warm weather break. Maybe I am bad luck. Feels like the wet weather is following me.
there's something special about lighthouses,
the sense of these powerful sentinels
standing protectively against the elements
... and all that sort of thing...
and Cape Byron Lighthouse is no different
with its own remarkable history of tragic tales.
.. this is actually a five shot vertical panorama
one of those shots I had all sorts of hopes for
that became one of those photoshop missions
of endless tweaking, blending and matching
undistortioning, perspectiving and snarling....
one of those grand ideas that never quite made it
Cape Byron Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located at Cape Byron, NSW, Australia. The cape is the easternmost point of mainland Australia.
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A view of this beautiful lighthouse from my Phantom 4 drone. Cape Byron is located near the town of Byron Bay in northern New South Wales.
Where the light keepers used to walk from their home to the lighthouse. The lighthouse keepers' cottages were constructed in 1901 as homes for the keepers working at Cape Byron Lightstation.
Cape Byron (Byron Bay) deserves its international reputation as one of the most beautiful places in the world and Australia's most easterly point
Peaceful and quite morning in Byron Bay. Perfect to relax at the beach watching the waves and listening the sound of the ocean.
Standing on a bald rocky headland with a precipitous cliff on the east side, and a sheer drop of approximately 100 metres, Cape Byron Lighthouse is the most easterly light in Australia, and one of the most powerful.
Built in the style used by NSW colonial architect, James Barnet, Charles Harding his successor, prepared the plans for the Cape Byron Lighthouse. Due to the elevation of the site, a tall structure was not required. Construction began in 1899 with the levelling of the site by contractors, Mitchell and King. The total cost was £10,042 (pounds) to the contractors, £8,000 for the apparatus and lantern house, and £2,600 for the road from Byron Bay township.
This would make a nice framed picture. The original is 11979 x 42936 pixels
The Cape Byron Lighthouse stands on the most easterly point of the Australian mainland and is Australia's most easterly lighthouse.
A ripper of a location for a fantastic sunrise and you will surely not be the only one enjoying it.
This was taken before sunset
This was taken as part of the Brisbane Meetup at the Kite and Bikes Festival - Brunswick Heads
Cape Byron Lighthouse. NSW, Australia.
Technical: Fuji Velvia 50 / Hasselblad 503cx with 80mm Carl Zeiss Planar T*
Cape Byron, New South Wales, Australia
Sunrise: 26th March 2011
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Australias’ most Easterly land point, Cape Byron, with the 1901 built Lighthouse perched on the top. The walk to the top from the carpark, is a short one, and popular to tourists.
This shot about 20 minutes before the sunrise facing South, at 5:23am, 11th March 2010. Be the first in Australia to see the sunrise!
The cape was named by Captain James Cook in 1770, when he found the safe anchorage.
Cape Byron, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.